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I don't know which would be more painful, trying to program on a touchscreen, or trying to program in APL.
by thrower123 5y ago
I don't know which would be more painful, trying to program on a touchscreen, or trying to program in APL.
- mikl 5y agoWhy not both?
- mseepgood 5y agoTyping speed is not the limiting factor when programming in APL. The limiting factor is the speed of your thoughts.
- rbanffy 5y agoThat and finding the symbol on the the keyboard if it lacks the APL labels. I learned it with a small reference card I placed on top of a standard IBM PC keyboard.
- eggy 5y agoActually, Dzaima's APL app for Android has a very intuitive keyboard, coupled with APL's terseness, allows me to do pretty intricate stuff on my phone that I can pick up later at my desktop if it gets bigger. A lot of the resistance to the array languages is one of familiarity and aversion to anything new or different. Just try it. Math scared you as a kid too most likely, and even though you may not be a master mathematician in your adult life, I am sure you cleared some seemingly obtuse hurdles in your youth.
- electroly 5y agoHonestly I think you'd have to be pretty proficient at APL for the touchscreen typing to become a problem. When I dabble in APL, I use the mouse to click on the buttons in the Dyalog language bar[0]. It doesn't matter -- it takes me much longer to think of what to type than it does to pick with the mouse. [0] http://help.dyalog.com/14.0/Content/UserGuide/Images/Language%20Bar.png http://help.dyalog.com/14.0/Content/UserGuide/Images/Languag...